Fado - (Polish Literature) by Andrzej Stasiuk (Paperback)

About the Book

Inspired by Jack Kerouac s On the Road, Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland s most accomplished living prose writer, takes readers into the forgotten Europe.

Book Synopsis

Inspired by Jack Kerouac s On the Road, Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland s most accomplished living prose writer, takes readers into the forgotten Europe.

Review Quotes

[A] delicate, deeply-shadowed book of travels through the culturally blurred hinterlands of the former Eastern Bloc. --J.W. McCormack

[H]e writes a slow, meditative prose that allows him to perceive the ancient rhythms under this constant change. --Daniel Trilling

[T]he book was so good it filled me with a strong desire to spend more time in the car parks of obscure provincial Polish towns. But it also filled me with an unexpected, new yearning. --Daniel Kalder

Fado is a must read for all. --Agnieszka Macoch

He gives us a true dispatch from Eastern Europe with the heart of a bohemian. --Monica Carter

Stasiuk is . . . an accomplished stylist with an eye for the telling detail that brings characters and situations to life. . . . I caught a flavor of Hamsun, Sartre, Genet and Kafka in Stasiuk s scalpel-like but evocative writing. --Irvine Welsh

Stasiuk writes eloquently and with penetrating insight about the effect of the collapse of communism on the people of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the young... --Carmelo Militano

Fado is a must read for all.--Agnieszka Macoch

Readers find this author s rough-and-ready tales of the Wild East so convincing that in the German-speaking countries he is now the best-known among contemporary Polish writers.

Starred Review. Stasiuk s style of travel writing takes readers, in beautifully descriptive prose, to far and often remote corners of Eastern Europe. He is an alluring writer; the opening line of Highway, the first essay in the collection Best of all is night in a foreign country is a siren song guaranteeing the book will not be put down until the last page has been read.